It turns out it wasn't just Lexis that is not working. It's pretty much any electronic product connected to either Lexis or Westlaw.

Today is making the baby Jesus cry.

My servers spontaneously combusted. Just like they did last week. For reasons no one could figure out.

Bodes ill.

The weird thing (OK, one of the weird things) about the Komodo dragons killing is this:

The giant lizards had been waiting for him under the tree, according to a neighbour, Theresia Tawa...

I wonder if she warned him. "Dude, the giant lizards are waiting for you under the tree! Whatever you do, don't fall out of the tree.... I said, don't fall out of the tree. OK, did you know that Komodo dragon saliva is particularly poisonous, containing more than 50 strains of bacteria? So if you do manage to escape, you're gonna wanna have that looked to...."

> Oprah's show is repeated after Craig Ferguson late at night, and last night there were these people chirping "I only eat 1900 calories a day, and I feel terrific! I only eat apple peels and a few nuts and salads! I could live to be 200 years old!" And I thought, "Why bother?"

SERIOUSLY.

See this is the kind of thing that I can't seem to respond to without sounding like a giant ass. If we keep extending life span we are only further compounding the over population problem. How exactly is this supposed to work: increasing population due to births worldwide, decrease infant mortality, increased life span, ever increasing medical advances. Finite resources already taxed in possibly irreversible ways. And almost none of the "end world poverty/conservation/reduce consumption" organizations or educational efforts will touch on family planning and birth control b/c of the messy religious mess that ensues and all the gov't controlling our bodies nightmares that can be constructed layered on the socio-economic/ethnic drama that eventually comes up. Clearly I am well into my Little Man Tate place - I swear I have anxiety attacks on this issue almost daily.

A friend of mine was visiting Indonesia and got a chance to see the dragons. You totally don't want to know what the preferred bait is to draw them out.

Oprah's show is repeated after Craig Ferguson late at night, and last night there were these people chirping "I only eat 1900 calories a day, and I feel terrific! I only eat apple peels and a few nuts and salads! I could live to be 200 years old!" And I thought, "Why bother?"

I have to admit that the selfish part of me (as well as the part that loves apples and nuts) is saying, "Think of all the books I could read if I had a whole extra century to do it in!"

But msbelle is totally right about the slow-motion multilayered nightmare that already is our world, even without masses of 150+ year olds to contend with.

Is it poo?

Calorie Restricted Diets don't really give you all that much more time. Plus, they make you cranky. From the article:

The rodents placed on severely restricted diets bit people who tried to hold them, and had an unpleasant demeanor, unlike the more docile animals given more "normal" amounts of food, Phelan said.

I'm cranky just reading about them.

Is it poo?

Nope.